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发帖数: 7349 | 1 Deborah Warner, the director, anchors the play in the present.
Lear’s court sits on blue plastic chairs, and the background noises include
a reversing lorry. The Duke of Albany carries the Spectator, a shopping
trolley makes its now almost obligatory appearance, and Lear’s Fool is
dressed in a ragged Superman outfit.
When Gloucester’s eyes are gouged out (by an electric drill) one of the
eyeballs is thrown into the audience, provoking nervous laughter at
precisely the wrong time for a theatrical joke.
Some of the verse is garbled, and the noisy storm made by billowing black
refuse bags drowns Lear’s “Blow winds, and crack your cheeks.”
Not all the performers rise to the occasion, but what really counts is
Glenda Jackson’s compelling start to the last act of a dramatic life. In a
memorable comeback, she commands the stage. |
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